Illinois Votes; Mitt Romney Wins; Race Still Over

The Illinois primary is today and looks like handing good news to Mitt Romney and poor news to reporters and pundits desperately trying to rustle-up fresh interest in a contest that has been dying for weeks now and certainly since Rick Santorum failed to make an apreciable Super Tuesday  impact on Romney’s lead in both actual votes cast and delegates won.

This is annoying since Romney is duller than his rivals. No moon-bases or wars on contraception for him, more’s the pity. Romney’s victory will never be total (too much baggage, too much suspicion of his motives for that) but a 40% plurality in a race that has, so far, presented voters with at least four options is not a disgracefully weak performance even if, given his financial advantages and knowledge of course and distance, it’s not quite as strong a record as you might wish were you advising Team Mitt.